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FncyChap V1.11

Ulf A. Lindgren

Department of Applied Electronics

Chalmers University of Technology

S-412 96 G�oteborg, Sweden

Contents

1 Package description 2

1.1 Basic use and requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2 Commands provided 3

2.1 Toward customization of the chapter head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3 An overview of the chapter styles 5

3.1 The chapter Sonny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.2 The chapter Lenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.3 The chapter Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.4 The chapter Conny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.5 The chapter Rejne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.6 The chapter Bjarne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4 An simple example 9

5 Revision details 11

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Chapter 1Package description

In this chapter a short introduction of the package will be given. The package has been written in orderfor me to learn more about LATEX and TEX. I have no idea if this package is written in a good way.

Thus, if anyone reads and tries FncyChap I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad. The reason isthat it will help me gain insight in writing macros.

In any publication it is important to remember that consistency plays a important role. That is, withthis package one can change the appearance of each chapter in the publication. However, this is notdesirable so don't forget modesty and consistency.

1.1 Basic use and requirements

The package is invoked by writing the following in the preamble of your document

nusepackage[style]ffncychapg

If the option, style, is omitted then the default de�nition of chapter is used. There are six prede�nedchapter styles, namely Sonny, Lenny, Glenn, Conny, Rejne and Bjarne. The names corresponds toSwedish given names, almost surely (a.s.) like IKEA1. Each such style has a default con�guration and ifthat con�guration is su�cient, then this is all that is needed.

The package does not rely on any other package. However, for the style Lenny a postscript font isdefault, but this font can easily be changed. I encourage the use of the default postscript font since it isscalable in a truly huge manner, which makes Lenny nice.

1reg. trademark of Ingvar Kamprad Elmhult Aktiebolag

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Chapter 2Commands provided

Apart from the chapter styles, some additional commands are provided in order to create user de�nedchapter heads. The commands will in the sequel be described. Each command is boxed and placed

on a separate line. Lets begin the descriptions of the commands.

nmghrulefillfwidthg

The above command is a more general version of the command nhrulefill in the sense that the widthof the ruler can be speci�ed. This command is provided in order to decorate the chapter headers. Thechapter heading are divided into two parts. The �rst part de�nes the so called nchapapp and nthechapterwhich holds information of the text \Chapter" and the current chapter no respectively. The second partis the chapter title provided by the user. From now one, the nchapapp and nthechapter will be referredto as chapter name and chapter number respectively. The user de�ned title is referred to as the chaptertitle.

2.1 Toward customization of the chapter head

The chapter name, number and title can be changed easy �rst lets introduce the commands followingtwo commands

nChNameUpperCase

and

nChNameLowerCase

these commands will change the chapter name into either upper or lower case. One additional casecommand is provided for the chapter name, namely

nChNameAsIs

which result in the default case. Three similar commands for the chapter title are de�ned by the commands

nChTitleUpperCase, nChTitleLowerCase and nChNameAsIs

The rule width of the prede�ned chapter styles can be controlled by the command

nChRuleWidthfwidthg

just remember that the width must have a unit, for instance pt, mm, etc. The font related matters suchas size, type and face can be sent using the commands

nChNameVarfstu�g, nChNumVarfstu�g and nChTitleVarfstu�g

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related to the chapter name number and title respectively. The argument, stu�, to these functions canbe for example nChNameVarfnhugenrmncentering.

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Chapter 3An overview of the chapter styles

The chapter styles have default settings for all of the functions described in section 2.1. However, itcan be changed using the commands. Note that if ncentering, etc is used to format the text part of

the chapter style then the result can be ugly. The chapter style Bjarne contains one additional command

nTheAlphaChapter

This command will write the chapter number using the corresponding word. nTheAlphaChapter have acapability of writing the words ZERO to NINETYNINE.

In the following sections the pre-de�ned styles are shown along with the default settings. Both thenchapter and nchapter* are given.

3.1 The chapter Sonny

The following settings have been used as default parameters

\ChNameVar{\Large\sf} \ChNumVar{\Huge} \ChTitleVar{\Large\sf}

\ChRuleWidth{0.5pt} \ChNameUpperCase

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3.1 The chapter Sonny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.2 The chapter Lenny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.3 The chapter Glenn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

3.4 The chapter Conny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.5 The chapter Rejne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3.6 The chapter Bjarne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7


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Figure 3.1: The stared chapter style sonny

CHAPTER 1

Package description

In this chapter a short introduction of the package will be given. The package has been written in orderfor me to learn more about LATEX and TEX. I have no idea if this package is written in a good way. Thus,if anyone reads and tries FancyChapters I would appreciate any feedback, good or bad. The reason isthat it will help me gain insight in writing macros.




nusepackage[style]ffancychaptersg

If the option, style, is omitted then the default de�nition of chapter is used. There are six prede�nedchapter styles, namely Sonny, Lenny, Glenn, Conny, Rejne and Bjarne. The names corresponds toSwedish given names, almost surely (a.e.) like IKEA1. Each such style has a default con�guration and ifthat con�guration is su�cient, then this is all that is needed.



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Figure 3.2: The chapter style Sonny

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3.2 The chapter Lenny


\ChNameVar{\fontsize{14}{16}\usefont{OT1}{phv}{m}{n}\selectfont}

\ChNumVar{\fontsize{60}{62}\usefont{OT1}{ptm}{m}{n}\selectfont}

\ChTitleVar{\Huge\bfseries\rm}, \ChRuleWidth{1pt}

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Figure 3.3: The stared chapter style Lenny

Chapter 1Package description









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Figure 3.4: The chapter style Lenny

3.3 The chapter Glenn


\ChNameVar{\bfseries\Large\sf}, \ChNumVar{\Huge}, \ChTitleVar{\bfseries\Large\rm},

\ChRuleWidth{1pt}, \ChNameUpperCase, \ChTitleUpperCase

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Figure 3.5: The stared chapter style Glenn

CHAPTER 1

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Figure 3.6: The chapter style Glenn

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3.4 The chapter Conny


\ChNameUpperCase \ChTitleUpperCase \ChNameVar{\centering\Huge\rm\bfseries}

\ChNumVar{\Huge} \ChRuleWidth{2pt} \ChTitleVar{\centering\Huge\rm}

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Figure 3.7: The stared chapter style Conny

CHAPTER 1

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Figure 3.8: The chapter style Conny

3.5 The chapter Rejne


\ChNameVar{\centering\Huge\rm\bfseries}, \ChNumVar{\Huge}, \ChTitleVar{\centering\Huge\rm}

\ChNameUpperCase, \ChTitleUpperCase, \ChRuleWidth{1pt}

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Figure 3.9: The stared chapter style Rejne

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Figure 3.10: The chapter style Rejne

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3.6 The chapter Bjarne


\ChNameUpperCase \ChNameVar{\raggedleft\normalsize\rm} \ChRuleWidth{1pt}

\ChTitleUpperCase \ChNumVar{\raggedleft \bfseries\Large} \ChTitleVar{\raggedleft \Large\rm}

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Figure 3.11: The stared chapter style Bjarne

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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION









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Figure 3.12: The chapter style Bjarne

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Chapter 4An simple example

If the pre de�ned styles does not ful�ll your needs then you can modify the formating routines. Theformatting is controlled by three commands. One might as well rede�ne the original chapter de�nitions

using the nsecdef and nrenewcommand, see The LATEX companion. However, at the time of creating thispackage I decided that this was easier. The command

nDOCH

formats the chapter name and number. The commands

nDOTIf#1g

and

nDOTISf#1g

formats the chapter title for nchapter and nchapter* respectively. In order to modify these you willhave to use the preamble along with the commands nmakeatletter and nmakeatother. The in additionsome prede�ned parameters can be used. The prede�ned length variables are

nmylen, nmyhi, npx, npy, npxx, npyy and nRW

note that nRW is special, since it is set by nChRuleWidth. The formatting controlled by nChNameVar,nChNumVar and nChTitleVar store their values in nCNV, nCNoV and nCTV respectively. Finally, The func-tions nFmNf g and nFmTif g acts accordingly to nCh***AsIs, nCh***UpperCase and nCh***LowerCase.Note that the stars indicate appropriate substitution of text, see section 2.1.

To illustrate this lets de�ne a new chapter style in which the Chapter name and number in a nfboxand the chapter title centered. The nfboxrule is linked to the prede�ned length nRW so that it can becontrolled by the command nChRuleWidth. Try this example at a computer near you.

\makeatletter

\ChNameVar{\Large\rm} % sets the style for name

\ChNumVar{\Huge} % sets the style for digit

\ChTitleVar{\Large\rm\centering} % sets the style for title

\ChRuleWidth{4pt} % Set RW=4pt

\ChNameUpperCase % Make name uppercase

\renewcommand{\DOCH}{%

\setlength{\fboxrule}{\RW} % Let fbox lines be controlled by

% \ChRuleWidth

\fbox{\CNV\FmN{\@chapapp}\space \CNoV\thechapter}\par\nobreak

\vskip 40\p@}

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\renewcommand{\DOTI}[1]{%

\CTV\FmTi{#1}\par\nobreak

\vskip 40\p@}

\renewcommand{\DOTIS}[1]{%

\CTV\FmTi{#1}\par\nobreak

\vskip 40\p@}

\makeatother

That is all there is to it. Note that the commands nDOTI and nDOTIS can be rede�ned anywhere in thedocument, but that is not a good idea. Suppose that you want to use the nTheAlphaChapter. This canbe done by initially chose the style Bjarne and then rede�ne nDOCH, nDOTI and nDOTIS.

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Chapter 5Revision details

This is the release (1.11) of the current package. A bug �x of the Lenny option has been included.The problem, reported by Diab Jerius, occurred (underfull vbox) when the option Lenny was used

in conjunction with nsection-command such that the section is typeset at the next page. This causedone line to be misplaced. The remedy was to box the chapter title.

In the release (1.1) of the current package. A modi�cation was made such that it will work with thebook class. The problem occurred when the fncychap styles Conny, Rejne, Bjarne or Glenn were usedin conjunction with the LATEX command ntabelofcontents. The exact reason for the error is not yetfound. The problem was reported by Olivier Guibe.

In the prior release there were no major improvements of the package. However, the package namewas changed in order to conform with the (DOS) requirement of eight characters. I also received somefeedback, informing me that the LATEX base have to be post 1994/12/01. This information has beenincluded in the package such that if an old base is used a warning will be written into the log.Release history:

Release 1 1996/12/13 FancyChapters 1.0b

Release 2 1997/01/08 FncyChap 1.0 (Name change, base date option)

Release 3 1997/01/22 FncyChap 1.1 (Bug �x)

Release 4 1997/04/06 FncyChap 1.11 (Bug �x)

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